Chapter One Introduction(1) 1.1Significance of the Study of Vocabulary Acquisition(1) 1.2Rationale of the Present Study(3) 1.3Outline(6) Chapter Two Literature Review(7) 2.1Defining Lexical Inferencing(7) 2.1.1Incidental and Intentional Learning(7) 2.1.2Incidental and Intentional Vocabulary Learning(9) 2.1.3Implicit and Explicit Learning(9) 2.1.4Inferencing and Lexical Inferencing(10) 2.1.5Lexical Inferencing Research Paradigm and Incidental Vocabulary Learning Research Paradigm(11) 2.2Learner-related Factors in Lexical Inferencing(11) 2.2.1General Language Proficiency(11) 2.2.2Reading Proficiency(12) 2.2.3Vocabulary Knowledge(13) 2.2.4Topic Familiarity(18) 2.2.5Other Learner-related Factors(19) 2.3Text-related Factors in Lexical Inferencing(22) 2.3.1Context and Lexical Inferencing(22) 2.3.2Word-related Factors in Lexical Inferencing(31) ……